Northern Rhodesia

Tropical enteropathy in Rhodesia.

Tropical enteropathy, which may be related to tropical sprue, has been described in many developing countries including parts of Africa. The jejunal changes of enteropathy are seen in Rhodesians of all social and racial categories. Xylose excretion, however, is related to socioeconomic status, but not race. Upper socioeconomic Africans and Europeans excrete significantly more xylose than lower ...

Rhodesia : Myths and Facts

Intersex among Africans in Rhodesia.

According to a Greek myth, preserved for us in Ovid and recorded by Rose (1953), Hermaphroditus was the son of Hermes and Aphrodite. A fountain nymph, Salmakis, who fell passionately in love with him, entreated the gods that she might be forever united with him, and her prayer was answered by the combination of lover and loved into a single being a hermaphrodite. By common usage the term hermap...

Myocardial infarction in Southern Rhodesia.

Myocardial infarction in Southern Rhodesia affects almost exclusively people of European descent, and to a much lesser extent the small Asian and Coloured (predominantly Eurafrican) communities. Thus out of a total of 608 carefully studied cases of cardiac disease admitted during three years to the Mpilo Hospital (for Africans) in Bulawayo, there was not a single unequivocal case of myocardial ...

The Political Economy of Rhodesia

labour. In the present analysis however, this would be an oversimplification preventing a correct assessment of the class structure. The proletariat will therefore include only manual and semi-skilled labour. The distinction has its rationale in the fact that the middle class sells its labour in a seller’s market, or at any rate in conditions less unfavourable to the seller than is the case for...